ABSTRACT
This chapter is about beaches and the activities that take place upon them in general – and surfing in particular. As environments and ecologies, beaches are spatialized as margins, as ‘free zones’, despite being highly organized as sites of work and leisure (Freeman 2002). They are less often thought of as dynamic sites of change and play. Surfing is an activity that exemplifies the dynamic beach as a space of play. Surfing illustrates current debates on the construction of leisure sites as homogeneously ‘generic’ global spaces of play (Lash 2002).
